Intrigued by His "Rep"

An article in the Thursday edition of The Missourian profiled Peter Gerard and his film "Just to Get a Rep." Gerard is a young filmmaker originally from Columbia, Missouri and his film is showing at the local True/False Film Festival. The film is a documentary about graffiti artists around the world. What was so interesting was how the story presented Gerard's work on the film. He began filming while he was still taking college classes, and paid for all the travel involved with his own money. It isn't like he was driving across town to get subjects for his film either. Gerard traveled to New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Manchester, Rome, Venice, Paris, Milan, and Barcelona to film graffiti artists. He said that he had to force himself to stop filming these artists after he accumulated 60 hours of film.

Personally, I haven't seen the movie, and I don't know if I will make it out to True/False in order to see it, but the film does sound interested. Perhaps more interesting is Peter Gerard. He is only 25 years old, and it sounds like he has a very promising future in the film making business. It seems like he is focused on documentaries, the article said he made a 30 minute documentary about life in Columbia when he was still in high school, but maybe he will venture over into the fiction side of film eventually. The article said that he is trying to raise money in order to distribute "Just to Get a Rep" to a wider audience, and I hope that he can have success at the True/False film festival and bring the film to a theatre near you.

Publish Date: February 23 in the Missourian.